Fresh off the announcement of the arrest of college student Munther Saleh on the basis of some Tweets and his search history, 21-year-old Fareed Mumuni has been arrested for “helping him” with the putative plot, and for attempting to stab an FBI agent during his arrest earlier today.
Mumuni is the third man arrested in the “pressure-cooker bomb plot,” which is based off Saleh Googling pressure cookers and explosives, but apparently not actually possessing either. The other man was arrested the same day as Saleh, but never named.
Unlike Saleh, who insists he isn’t an ISIS sympathizer, Mumuni insists he is, and told officials after his arrest that he’d planned to leave the country and go join the Islamist movement in Syria at some point in the future.
Mumuni also claims to have mentioned the idea of pressure cooker bombs to Saleh, though again, prosecutors seem to have jumped the gun in concluding this was a conspiracy since the pressure cooker was never actually bought.
The hysterical little girls of 1692 Salem were far more rational and credible as witnesses than the FBI agents behind the proliferation of "terror" investigations and arrests this year.
so nothing is really explained….what happened?
it seems these guys were under surveillance for quite some time.
one day, while driving around, they were followed, for hours perhaps,
by some scary guys in an unmarked car.
from the reports, "perp" #1 got out of his car, maybe at a traffic light,
and approached the scary car. the reports say he "took three steps
toward the agents." seems he was approaching the unmarked car
to ask why they were following him.
what about "perp" #2? nobody knows. could be the scary guys
jumped out of the car and tried to tackle terro…i mean "perp" #1,
and terrori….oop again, "perp" #2 tried to help his friend who
was being attacked by unidentified assailants.